Podcasting: ID3 tag incosistency

The one thing I don’t like about iPodder is that it insists on creating a separate playlist for every feed. This not only makes iTunes unneccessarily complex, it also is prone to typo attacks and people who change the titles of their feeds. Adam, for example, appears in two iTunes playlists: “Adam Curry Daily Source Code” and “Adam Curry Adam Curry’s weblog”. As long as iTunes doesn’t support hierarchical playlists, I’d like iPodder to put everything into one single playlist instead.

The worst example for bad tags is the best feed in town, namely IT Conversations. Look here to see what the tags look like. Not only do they miss dates in the post, which makes it impossible to find out what the latest post is, they also lack any common scheme to find the files. If I delete a title from my playlist, I have no way to find it again in my iTunes.